Jean-Pierre Van Rossem

Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (29 May 1945-14 December 2018) was a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 1991 to 1995 and of the Flemish Parliament from 1992 to 1995 as the leader of his libertarian party, ROSSEM.

Biography
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem was born in Bruges, Belgium in 1945, and he studied economics at the University of Gent from 1963 to 1967 before studying at the Wharton School in the United States. He became a famous stock market guru with "Moneytron", an investment company which could offer apparently endless returns, and which could predict economic fluctuations with a secret supercomputer. Van Rossem claimed that he could beat the capitalist system with his model for predicting the stock market, and he accumulated $860 million for himself. However, he printed false shares and sold his yacht, his 108 Ferrari cars, and two Falcon 900 planes to pay off debts, and he was sentenced to five years in prison in 1991 for his scams. However, that same year, he was elected to the Chamber of Representatives at the head of his own party, ROSSEM, which held libertarian and republican views. He also served in the Flemish Parliament, and he left politics in 1995; he made a failed comeback in 2014, and he died in 2018.